... was to write a sober and careful examination of the evidence that drew on highly authoritative sources, there are very few mainstream editors in London (perhaps none in the corporations, funnily enough) who would touch it. Editors tend to be very sensitive to accusations of being "conspiracy theorists" ...Publish a book about Diana, 9-11 or JFK and suddenly you are a "conspiracy theorist".' (7) In a sense this book is an account of how that 'consensus reality' and those 'dominant narratives' are sustained by their creators during a period of stress. Notes 7 This is a striking contrast to the rest of Europe where there have been many best-selling conspiratorial ...

... societies at Yale; and a list of members from 1934 to 1985. Unfortunately the first half of the book is mostly a collection of conspiracy-minded essays on Skull and Bones and related areas which are of little value. The Illuminati first appear on p. 17 and editor Milligan gives us an essay titled 'Mind control, the Illuminati and the JFK assassination'. The least risible of these essays are by the late Anthony Sutton, who has been writing about the group for twenty years. In effect the founder of Skull and Bones studies, Sutton was sent a list of the society's members in the early 1980s and has been writing about them ever since, incorporating the group into ...

... April 1 1976.... Colby told me [Casey] that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the New York Mafia and Robert Vesco...' Notice Al Carone in the last sentence. He figures elsewhere in the Dowbenko piece, as a 'CIA operative' who makes the following claim (JFK buffs, pay attention!):'[Al Carone] had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey...Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background ...

... who shot John? Suddenly we've got Kennedy assassins all over the place. In August, the former Dallas policeman Roscoe White was identified as the shooter on the grassy knoll by his son, after an alleged death-bed confession in 1973. Reports from the buff community in the United States are mixed. Attracting less attention, on May 11th the JFK researcher Gary Shaw held a press conference in Texas and announced that from an (unnamed) mafia source he had learned that a series of attempted assassinations had been planned in November 1963, organised by the mafia. The successful attempt allegedly involved Sam Giancana, Charles Nicoletti, John Rosselli and Jack Ruby, all now dead, with Nicoletti ...

... is understandable when he is describing his travels in the region in the 1950s: the CIA was still, more or less, a secret organisation; but a lot of information has been produced since then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend or excuse. Crucially, he accepts the received view that JFK and LBJ were the same: he is apparently unaware of JFK's plan to pull the US out of Vietnam. 'Nor is there any reasons to suppose that things would have been any different had Kennedy not been killed, for he was every bit as rigid a Cold Warrior as Johnson.'( p. 188) This simply is ...

... ). Vague No 18/19 Programming Phenomena and Conspiracy Theory Not really a book, but not a magazine either, this is 147 A4 pages of borrowed, ripped-off articles, graphic and assorted fragments on everything from the Bilderberg 1986 meeting personnel to an essay from Lobster 8, encompassing Quigley, Situationist slogans, right-wing US conspiracy theories, JFK assassination, Charles Manson and P2. The whole thing has been slung together by 'Tom Vague' who has apparently spent the last 15 years mourning the loss of OZ and IT: every page is overprinted in various colours, which looks nice, but makes it hard to read. Full of interesting bits and pieces, none of them ...

... 348532006> It was a PanAm plane that was blown up. [6] Coleman got framed and imprisoned, thus preventing him from giving evidence at the trail of unfortunate Libyans designated as the patsies. The same thing happened to Abraham Bolden, a black Secret Service agent who wanted to tell the Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. [7] <www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0 ,, 1741039,00.html> The report said that they had been allowed to do this in return for information on Turkish drug traffickers. Although they weren't referred to in the report, I would guess that MI6 were involved in a deal ...

... May 1997 For non-UK readers, Millbank is the name given to the office which houses the Labour Party's computer data base named Excaliber which holds information on a variety of subjects, including the words and deeds (and misdeeds) of Labour Party MPs and personnel. A long article about Millbank appeared in The Times 21 April 1997. Bobby and JFK (see note 6 above), now Excaliber, the magic sword of the Arthurian legend...cue more faint strains of 'Camelot'. Last| Contents| Next ...

... . Getting CAIB isn't easy in the UK. It used to be stocked by a couple of London bookshops- Housmans and Compendium. For details of how to order it see the display ad in this issue. The Third Decade is a new journal devoted to the research into the assassination of President Kennedy. It is said occasionally that the JFK assassination research industry has long since turned into a fully-fledged academic subject with its own specialisms and sub-sets. This isn't really quite true but has become a more plausible claim with the appearance of The Third Decade. For of all the extant magazines/newsletters on the subject, this is the first of them which does, truly, resemble ...